Crystal and stones » spessartine http://www.crystalandstones.com Properties of natural crystal precious stones, birthstones, gemstones, lithotherapy, crystal healing, chakras Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:06:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Silicates http://www.crystalandstones.com/about-precious-stones/silicates.html http://www.crystalandstones.com/about-precious-stones/silicates.html#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:14:00 +0000 precious stones http://www.crystalandstones.com/?p=101 The chief of these are the garnets, crystallising in the cubic system, and anhydrous.

The garnet is usually in the form of a rhombic dodecahedron, or as a trisoctahedron (called also sometimes an icosatetrahedron), or a mixture of the two, though the stones appear in other cubic forms.

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